quotidian

Meaning

Adj

1. Happening every day; daily.
2. Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced, etc, every day or very commonly.
3. Recurring every twenty-four hours or (more generally) daily (of symptoms, etc).

Noun

1. A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria.
2. A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy.
3. Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class.

Concepts

quotidian

daily

everyday

mundane

routine

unremarkable

workaday

diurnal

ordinary

commonplace

day-to-day

as usual

regular

plain

amphemerous

methemerine

matter-of-fact

prosaic

unlovely

unpicturesque

common

day-after-day

day-by-day

ready-made

colloquial

processes

tides

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kwəˈtɪdɪən/

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman cotidian, cotidien, Middle French cotidian, cotidien, and their source, Latin cottīdiānus, quōtīdiānus (“happening every day”), from adverb cottīdiē, quōtīdiē (“every day, daily”), from an unattested adjective derived from quot (“how many”) + locative form of diēs (“day”).